Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock. Try looking for it with a bookfinder.

He
is sort of a Canadian Rush Limbaugh. He is no relation to me.

What did Lowell Green Do?

On an early morning radio talk show on 2007-01-23 Lowell Green announced that I, Roedy Green, had mailed an
abusive letter to a widow of the Afghanistan war six days before
Christmas. He then gave out my home phone, home address and website and asked his
listeners to harass me. They complied, with death threats and other abusive calls and
emails. They tried to shut down my website. They have also done some electronic
vandalism.

My Defence

I wrote no such letter. The only letter I can recall
sending was to a kindly elderly woman whose hobby was writing soldiers in Afghanistan. I
wanted to convince her to stop because she was indirectly encouraging and enabling these
men to kill children. They should feel miserable. They
should feel guilty.

I sent six emails to various CFRA employees and a registered letter requesting a copy
of the alleged letter. So far, all have been ignored. I still have not been informed by
anyone (including any of the threatening callers) what I allegedly said, so I can’t
tell you whether I agree with it or not. Presumably their lawyers have told CFRA maintain
silence since they have committed a number of sins.

My ISP (Internet Service Provider) has urged me to open a file with the
RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) to deal with the death threats and counterfeit complaints
to the ISP. One of
Lowell Green’s listeners phoned me to encourage me to press criminal charges
against him, since he was clearly attempting to incite some crazy person to kill me. She
said he has done this many times before lately especially to minorities and he needs to
be stopped. He is full of himself. I would be interested in
hearing from anyone else who has been a target of Mr. Lowell Green’s
fatwah’s. Perhaps we can get some help from my friends at BC Civil Liberties
Association or the University of Victoria Legal Aid team.

The Alleged Letter

Somebody posted the text of this letter to the Wikipedia entry about me,
allegedly the one Lowell Green read on the air. The alleged letter is addressed to Darcy
Tedford
killed in Afghanistan on 2006-10-14.

It is with courage and heroism that Sergeant Darcy Tedford and Private Blake Williamson
have sacrificed their life to bring stability, democracy and peace in Afghanistan.
~ Stephen Harper(born:1959-04-30 age:57)
Prime Minister Of Canada

Dear Darcy

You selfish f***! It is almost Christmas and your wife and kids are sick with grief
because you are not home for Christmas and never will be.

Why did you do this? Stephen Harper said it is the price we have
to pay for Canada’s leadership in the world. Was it worth it?

I am pretty sure the reason you did this was you simply enjoy killing animals, people,
blowing things up, playing war, killing kids and blowing the arms of grandmothers. You
are a sick sadistic f*** and the army was a way to indulge your fantasies and get paid
for it.

But was that sadistic pleasure worth the pain you inflicted on your family?

OK, so you were at heart a serial killer. Why did you have to marry and have children?
Any decent person would have played your sick game without taking 3 innocent people down
with you. But I suppose, what else can I expect from hunk of shit like you who killed
innocent Afghan civilians just for fun.

If there is a hell, may you rot in it.

I still have not yet tracked the orginal source of this letter. I did not mail it to
any widow. It is not posted on my website. It is not in my out email box. Google
can’t find it. CRFA has not yet been forthcoming. It would not make sense that I
would have written it in response to an email from Darcy since it addresses his ghost.
Does anyone know where Lowell Green got this from?

My Stand

Though I mailed no letter to a widow, it is true it is no secret that I
maintain all Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan, living or dead, to be war
criminals. They are doing the exact same thing, namely waging an aggressive war, that was
the only charge used to hang the all Nazis at Nuremberg. The Afghanistan war is a
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), not a U.N. operation. It does not matter than the chances
of prosecution in the immediate future are slim; they are still international war
criminals. Eventually, they may be tried and sentenced life.

Most Canadians, even those who are opposed to the war, hold the soldiers blameless.
Perhaps they consider them too stupid to be morally responsible for their actions.
Just following orders has not cut it since Nuremberg.
Soldiers are completely responsible for their actions, ordered or not.

Universal Soldier

I wrote Universal Soldier in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It’s about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal
thinking kills us all.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie(born:1941-02-20 age:75)

Donovan (born:1946-05-10 age:70) had a hit with it in 1965.

He’s five feet two and he’s six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He’s all of 31 and he’s only 17
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years

He’s a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn’t kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me for you

And he’s fighting for Canada,
he’s fighting for France,
he’s fighting for the USA,
and he’s fighting for the Russians
and he’s fighting for Japan,
and he thinks we’ll put an end to war this way

And he’s fighting for Democracy
and fighting for the Reds
He says it’s for the peace of all
He’s the one who must decide
who’s to live and who’s to die
and he never sees the writing on the walls

But without him how would Hitler have
condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He’s the one who gives his body
as a weapon to a war
and without him all this killing can’t go on

He’s the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him and you and me
and brothers can’t you see
this is not the way we put an end to war.

Motive

Since the soldiers are not motivated by a desire to defend Canada, they
must be motivated by stupidity, blood lust or money. This puts them on the same moral
plane as the criminally insane, serial killers and Mafia thugs. Anyone who enables or
encourages them in any way, or who lives off the avails of such thuggery, e.g. their
wives, are morally tarred with their war crimes.

Further, the soldiers are extremely selfish. They are inconsiderate of their families,
abandoning them either for months at a time or permanently (via death) just so they can
have the adventure of killing Afghans who did absolutely nothing to hurt Canada. They
come back psychologically destroyed, crippled, maimed or brain damaged and expect their
families to nurse them the rest of their lives.

Canadian soldiers used to be honorable men, who defended their country or served on
peacekeeping missions. However, those serving in Afghanistan are cold blooded child
killers. They don’t deserve the honour of being called Canadian soldiers.

The Afghanistan war was originally started ostensibly because the USA wanted
Afghanistan to catch bin Laden for them and extradite him without the usual formalities
of an extradition treaty or presenting evidence of guilt. That was an outrageously
high-handed, arrogant and illegal act. Canada, like a mindless toady, signed on for the
bogus war.

The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one
priority and we will not rest until we find him.
~ George W. Bush(born:1946-07-06 age:70),
2001-09-13

I don’t know where he is. I have no idea and I really don’t care.
It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.
~ George W. Bush(born:1946-07-06 age:70),
2002-03-13

In retrospect, given that the entire might of the USA military was not able
to find bin Laden, it was rather thick to demand an impoverished nation like Afghanistan
capture him. Soon, bin Laden was forgotten, but the war continued. The actual reasons for
the Afghanistan war, planned long in advance, are:

The pipeline for Unocal. All the top people in the puppet Afghan government
including Hamid Karzai are ex-Unocal employees.

Currently, the [Afghanistan] pipeline is a go-project thanks to the junta’s
[Bush/Cheney’s] installation of a Unocal employee (John J. Maresca) as US
envoy to the newly born democracy whose president, Hamid Karzai, is also, according
to Le Monde, a former employee of a Unocal subsidiary. Conspiracy? Coincidence!
~ Gore Vidal(born:1925-10-03 died:2012-07-30 at age:86)

The heroin trade. It is a trillion dollar a year business. The Taliban had
eliminated it. The USA, Britain and Canada revived it to produce 30% more heroin than the world consumed in 2005. They flooded the world with cheap heroin to hook new users, mostly
children. That astounding hypocite, Karzai, has been blaming the Taliban and making
noises about wanting to stop the opium/heroin traffic, but he is unwilling to do
anything that would actually destroy the crop. His motley band of drug lord and war
lord collaborators, not to mention corrupt NATO
military officials, would never allow it.

This is the most ignoble war Canada have ever been involved in. It ranks with the
Britain’s Opium Wars of the nineteenth century.

If my words sting, it is because you, on some level, recognise the truth in them. If
you truly believed I was spouting nonsense, they would have no power over you. That pain
you feel is your own guilt for your part in creating the nightmare in
Afghanistan. Shutting me up, or even killing me, won’t shut up your conscience.

My Registered Letter

As you may be aware Mr. Lowell Green has accused me of sending a letter to the widow
of an Afghanistan vet on his CFRA talk show. I mailed no such letter. My six emails
requesting a copy of the letter have gone unanswered. Please provide a copy of the
alleged letter.

Further, Mr. Lowell Green set his fans to harass me with phone calls at all hours,
death threats and formal complaints to my ISP.
He gave out
my home phone number and address. These people were so incoherent they could not tell me
the contents of the letter, whom it was to etc.

Here are some possibilities as to what may have happened:

The letter is a forgery, perhaps counterfeited the right winger Lowell Green
himself, who is infuriated by my liberal views on war and the environment.

This is an email response to someone who sent me an abusive email.

This was copyrighted material posted on my website.

This was something I posted to a public newsgroup forum debating war politics.

My roommate was so terrified she feels we must move to be safe.

I would like to know at least what I have been accused of. Please send me a
CD (Compact Disc) of the radio shows
where Mr. Lowell Green made these various allegations.

~ Roedy Green

The Goose Chase

Since I wrote this I was sent on a goose chase after the alleged
letter. Only fairly late in the game did I get the text of what I was looking for.

a letter mailed to an Afghanistan war widow

an email to an Afghanistan war widow.

a letter to an Afghanistan war widow posted on my website.

a letter to an Afghanistan war widow posted somewhere on the Internet/Newsnet.

I tracked these leads down and found nothing. I have recently been told it is
somewhere in the newsgroup archives somewhere among the over 150,000 posts I have made. I have yet to look there. I am quite ill and
have only a little energy to pursue this matter. Please be patient.

After this blew over, the sister of a soldier killed in Iraq wrote me chastising me
for not treating American soldiers in Iraq as heros. I wrote a rather scathing reply.

Eventually I found out what the fuss was about, a newsgroup posting in the form of an
address to the ghost of a young man named Darcy who was killed in Afghanistan. I
upbraided him for his foolishness and all the harm he had caused with his desire to kill
Afghans who were no threat to Canada.

Summary

This is why we have courts, to check if accusations are true and to mete out
appropriate punishments. If someone had killed me or beaten me up, surely suspicion of
upsetting a widow should not be sufficient excuse to exculpate the vigilante Mr.
Green.